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Qataris write comments on a wall bearing a portrait of Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, in Doha. (Karim Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images)
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Saudi billionaire and founder of Kingdom Holding Company, following his release from eighty-three days of detention in the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh. (Guy Martin/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Mohammed bin Salman pushed aside his older cousin Mohammed bin Nayef to become heir apparent. (Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri was detained by Saudi officials. (Hasan Shaaban/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Mohammed bin Salman was the secret buyer of the world’s most expensive painting, the Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci. The final price, including fees, was more than $450 million. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)
Badr bin Farhan, a close friend of Mohammed bin Salman from childhood, bid for the painting and later was appointed to run the kingdom’s culture efforts. (Valery Sharifulin/TASS via Getty Images)
Saudi Arabia began plans to open up long-closed archaeological sites to tourists, including the historic city of al-Ula.
(Fayez Nureldine/AFP via Getty Images)
Women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul was arrested and allegedly tortured in Saudi Arabia. (AFP via Getty Images)
Mohammed bin Salman and Donald Trump meeting in the Oval Office during the prince’s three-week visit to the United States. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
Jamal Khashoggi, a longtime regime-friendly Saudi journalist who became a leading antagonist to Mohammed bin Salman, was murdered by Saudi agents in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. (The Asahi Shimbun/The Asahi Shimbun)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan drip-fed information about Jamal Khashoggi’s murder to the press, punishing the Saudi Arabian government. (ADEM ALTAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Despite the scandal of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, Mohammed bin Salman re-emerged and wielded more power on the world stage than any Middle East leader in a generation. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool via Bloomberg)
Bradley Hope, Blood and Oil
